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Appendix C
Committee and Staff Biographies
Robert M. Hamilton (Chair) is a seismologist with a primary interest in
natural disaster loss reduction. He retired as Deputy Executive Director
of NRC’s Division on Earth and Life Studies in 2004. He had previously
served as Executive Director of NRC’s Commission on Geosciences, Envi-
ronment, and Resources, following 30 years as a geophysicist with the
U.S. Geological Survey. He chaired the Committee on Disaster Reduction
for the International Council for Science (ICSU), and chaired the Scientific
and Technical Committee of the International Decade for Natural Disaster
Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations program for the 1990s. He also
served for 2 years with the IDNDR Secretariat in Geneva, including a year
as Director. He has been a member of the Inter-agency Task Force for the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, a follow-on United Nations
program to the IDNDR. He also chaired the Subcommittee on Disaster
Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Hamilton
served as President of the Seismological Society of America, and Presi -
dent and Secretary of the Seismology Section of the American Geophysi -
cal Union. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Hamilton has
a geophysical engineering degree from Colorado School of Mines, and
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Richard A. Andrews has more than 30 years’ experience in emergency
management, counter-terrorism policy, and seismic safety. He is a mem -
ber of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which provides policy
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guidance to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Advisory Council. He
chairs the Council’s Senior Advisory Committee on Emergency Services,
Law Enforcement, Public Health and Hospitals. He served as Director
of the California Office of Homeland Security and Homeland Security
Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2004-2005. From 1991
to 1998, Dr. Andrews was Director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency
Services for California, where he managed the emergency response and
recovery efforts for 19 presidential and 24 gubernatorial disasters. He is
a member of the World Bank’s Disaster Management Operations Group
and has worked on emergency management projects in Turkey, Algeria,
Romania, and India. Dr. Andrews is a past President of the National Emer-
gency Management Association (NEMA) and former Executive Director
of the California Seismic Safety Commission. He is the former Chair of
NEMA’s Private Sector Committee as well as a public-private task force
formed to explore ways in which the Emergency Management Assistance
Compact—a congressionally ratified organization that provides form and
structure to interstate mutual aid—might be employed to more effectively
use private-sector resources during major emergencies. Dr. Andrews
received an A.B. from DePauw University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from
Northwestern University.
Robert A. Bauer is an engineering geologist and head of the Engineering
and Coastal Geology Section of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS).
He has worked with Illinois state emergency managers on exercises and
workshops since 1990 and is the ISGS/Institute of Natural Resource Sus-
tainability (INRS) representative to the state’s emergency operations cen -
ter. He has participated on the earthquake scenario committees and hazard
map production for the Illinois statewide earthquake assessment. He is
the ISGS/INRS’ representative and State Geologist Technical Director,
program coordinator, and past-Chair of the Association of the Central U.S.
Earthquake Consortium State Geologists. He serves on the Illinois Seismic
Safety Task Force, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) New
Madrid Scenario Executive Committee, and provided important input
to the FEMA New Madrid Catastrophic Planning Scenario subcommit-
tee. He has authored more than 90 publications, and is a member of the
Geo-Institute of ASCE, Association of Engineering Geologists, Society of
Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and
Petroleum Engineers, International Association of Engineering Geolo-
gists, and EERI. Mr. Bauer received a B.S. in geological science from the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and an M.S. in engineering geology from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Jane A. Bullock is a principal at Bullock and Haddow, LLC, a disaster
mitigation consulting firm, and also is an adjunct professor at the Insti -
tute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management at George Washington
University. Ms. Bullock has more than 25 years of private- and public-
sector experience culminating in responsibility, as chief of staff, for the
daily management and operations of FEMA, with its responsibility for
disaster mitigation, response, and recovery. In the course of her career, she
directed the restructuring and streamlining of the agency, set policy and
programmatic direction for the nation’s emergency management systems,
served as the agency’s spokesperson, and worked with Congress and
the nation’s governors to enhance disaster management throughout the
United States. She was chief architect of Project Impact: Building Disaster
Resistant Communities, a nationwide, grassroots effort by communities
and businesses to implement mitigation and risk reduction programs. In
2000, she received the Presidential Rank Award, the highest award pre-
sented by the President to a career civil servant. Since leaving FEMA, Ms.
Bullock has worked with a variety of organizations to design and imple -
ment disaster management and homeland security programs. In the post-
Katrina environment, she has worked with Save the Children to design
and implement their domestic disaster response and recovery program.
She testified before both House and Senate committees about the future
of emergency management after Hurricane Katrina. Internationally, she
has worked with countries in Central and South America, Eastern Europe,
and New Zealand on implementing disaster management and mitigation
programs. She is the coauthor of textbooks on emergency management,
homeland security, climate change and mitigation, and a Living with the
Shore book series dealing with the design and construction of communities
in hazardous areas.
Stephanie E. Chang is a professor at the University of British Columbia
(UBC), where she has joint faculty appointments with the School of Com -
munity and Regional Planning and the Institute for Resources, Environ-
ment, and Sustainability. She holds a Canada Research Chair position (tier
2) in Disaster Management and Urban Sustainability. Much of Dr. Chang’s
work aims to bridge the gap between engineering, natural sciences, and
social sciences in addressing the complex issues of natural disasters. Some
of her research has focused on developing integrated regional models
for estimating losses from future earthquakes. She has also developed
methods for assessing disaster mitigation strategies and researched how
disasters impact regional economies. Her current research addresses com -
munity disaster resilience and sustainability, mitigation of infrastructure
system risks (especially electric power, water, and transportation), and
urban disaster recovery. She is particularly interested in applications
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to cities of the Pacific Rim. Prior to joining UBC, she was a research
assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of
Washington. She has also worked as a researcher and consultant with EQE
International (subsequently ABS Consulting) in Los Angeles and Seattle.
Dr. Chang was awarded the 2001 Shah Family Innovation Prize by EERI
and served on the editorial board of Earthquake Spectra. She recently served
on the National Research Council’s Committee on Disaster Research in
the Social Sciences. Dr. Chang received a B.S.E. in civil engineering and
operations research from Princeton University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in
regional science from Cornell University.
William T. Holmes is a vice president and structural engineer at Rutherford
and Chekene, Consulting Engineers, a multi-disciplinary engineering
firm. Mr. Holmes has 40 years of practical experience in all aspects of
designing structures, particularly design for protection from earthquake
effects. In addition to traditional structural engineering design of build -
ings, Mr. Holmes’ broad interests and experience include post-earthquake
reconnaissance and analysis, post-earthquake response of hospitals, seis -
mic protection of nonstructural systems, fragility and retrofit standards
for unreinforced masonry buildings, regional loss estimation, develop-
ment of seismic standards for both new and existing buildings, research
and development of seismic technology, seismic isolation, public policy,
and performance-based seismic engineering. Mr. Holmes has traveled to
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Ecuador, Greece, India, Italy, Japan,
Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, and Turkey to address confer-
ences and workshops or to consult with local officials on seismic design.
As a result of his long and varied career, he has been awarded the Alfred
E. Alquist Medal for Achievement in Earthquake Safety (Public Service) by
the California Earthquake Safety Foundation, the H.J. Brunnier Award for
lifetime achievement in structural engineering by the Structural Engineers
Association of Northern California (SEAONC), the Exceptional Service
Award by the Building Seismic Safety Council, and Honorary Membership
in the Structural Engineers Association of California and the Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute (EERI). He sits on the Board of Directors
of Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
(CUREE) and has served as President of SEAONC and the Applied Tech -
nology Council. Mr. Holmes received a B.S. in civil engineering and an
M.S. in structural engineering from Stanford University.
Laurie A. Johnson is Principal of Laurie Johnson Consulting and Research.
She has more than 20 years of professional experience in urban planning,
risk management, and disaster recovery research and consulting. She has
written extensively about the economics of catastrophes, land use and
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risk, and urban disaster recovery and reconstruction, and researched most
of the large-scale urban disasters of the past 20 years, including the 2008
Sichuan China earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, the 2001 World Trade Cen -
ter collapse, and the 1994 Northridge, CA, and 1995 Kobe, Japan, earth -
quakes. In March 2006, she founded her consultancy, working to apply the
principles and technologies of risk management to solve complex urban
problems. Her clients include the California Governor’s Office of Emer-
gency Services, Fritz Institute, Greater New Orleans Community Support
Foundation, and the U.S. Geological Survey. In 2006 and 2007, she was a
lead author and disaster recovery expert on the development of a unified
recovery and rebuilding plan for the City of New Orleans following the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina. She is also an International Research
Collaborator at the Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems at
the Disaster Prevention Research Institute. She is on the Board of Direc -
tors of the Public Entity Risk Institute, and a member of the Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute, American Institute of Certified Planners,
and the American Planning Association. She holds a master of urban plan-
ning and B.S. degrees, both from Texas A&M University, and a doctorate
of informatics from Kyoto University, Japan.
Thomas H. Jordan (NAS) is director of the Southern California Earth -
quake Center (SCEC) and W. M. Keck Professor of Earth Sciences at
the University of Southern California (USC). He oversees all aspects
of SCEC’s program, which currently involves more than 600 scientists
at more than 60 universities and research institutions. SCEC devel-
ops comprehensive understanding of earthquakes and communicates
knowledge for reducing earthquake risk. Dr. Jordan is a member of
the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council and the NAS
Council and the NRC Governing Board. His research addresses earth -
quake processes, seismology of the earth, and geodetic observations of
plate motions and interplate deformation. His other areas of interest
include continental formation and tectonic evolution, mantle dynam -
ics, and statistical descriptions of seafloor morphology. Dr. Jordan is
the author or co-author of approximately 180 scientific publications,
including the NRC decadal report, Living on an Active Earth: Perspectives
on Earthquake Science, and two popular textbooks. He taught at Princeton
University and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography before joining
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the Robert R. Shrock
Professor in 1984. He served as the head of MIT’s Department of Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences for the decade 1988-1998. In 2000,
he moved from MIT to USC. He has been awarded the Macelwane and
Lehmann Medals of AGU and the Woollard Award of GSA. He has been
elected to NAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
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American Philosophical Society. Dr. Jordan received his B.A., M.S., and
Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.
Gary A. Kreps is professor emeritus and former Vice Provost at the Col-
lege of William and Mary. He began his career as a faculty member and
administrator at William and Mary and continued there until retiring in
July 2005. Dr. Kreps has long-standing research interests in organizational
and role theories as both relate to structural analyses of community,
regional, and societal responses to natural, technological, and willful
hazards and disasters. He has served as a staff member, consultant, or
member on five National Research Council committees: the Committee
on the Socioeconomic Effects of Earthquake Prediction, the Committee on
U.S. Emergency Preparedness, the Committee on International Disaster
Assistance, the Committee on Mass Media Reporting of Disasters, and the
Committee on Disaster Research in the Social Sciences. Over the course of
the past 2 decades, Dr. Kreps and his collaborators have developed taxono-
mies and theories of organizing and role enactment during the emergency
periods of disasters. Major findings from his research program have been
reported in two books and articles in Sociological Theory, Annual Review of
Sociology, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Journal
of Applied Behavioral Science, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and
Disasters, and many other basic and applied publications. Dr. Kreps’ 2001
entry in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
(“Disaster, Sociology of”) emphasizes the need to reconcile functionalist
and constructivist conceptions of disasters as acute systemic events. Most
recently, he received the 2008 E.L. Quarantelli Award for career contri-
butions to social science theory and research on hazards and disasters.
Dr. Kreps received his bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University
of Akron and his master’s and doctorate degrees from The Ohio State
University.
Stuart Nishenko is the Senior Seismologist in the Geosciences Department
of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco, CA. His focus
is on earthquake hazard assessment and risk management, and he has
authored or co-authored more than 100 publications including the 2001
FEMA 366 HAZUS99 Estimated Annualized Earthquake Losses for the United
States study, the 1988 and 1990 Working Group on California Earthquake Prob-
ability reports, and 2006 NRC study on the Economic Benefits of Improved
Seismic Monitoring. He serves as a member the USGS Scientific Earthquake
Studies Advisory Committee, and as chairman of the California Integrated
Seismic Network Advisory Committee and the Government Relations
Committee of the Seismological Society of America. He received his
Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory in 1983 and was a NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate.
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Dr. Nishenko is the liaison to this committee from the Committee on Seis-
mology and Geodynamics.
Adam Z. Rose is a research professor at the University of Southern
California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He is also Coor-
dinator for Economics at USC’s DHS Center for Risk and Economic
Analysis of Terrorism Events. Much of Dr. Rose’s research is on the
economics of natural and man-made hazards. He recently served on an
NRC panel on the economic benefits of seismic monitoring, as a lead
researcher for a report to Congress on the net benefits of FEMA hazard
mitigation grants, as lead economist on the Southern California ShakeOut
Project, as co-principal investigator (PI) on a study to develop a hazards
decision-support system for the Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power, and as coordinator for the DHS Integrated Network of Centers of
a set of studies on economic and community resilience. He is currently a
co-PI on an NSF grant to estimate the economic impacts of risk amplifica-
tion following terrorist attacks. A major focus of his research has been on
resilience to natural disasters and terrorism at the levels of the individual
business, market, and regional economy. Dr. Rose’s other research areas
are the economics of energy and climate change policy. He has served on
the editorial boards of the Journal of Regional Science, Resource and Energy
Economics, Energy Policy, and Resource Policy. He has served as the Ameri-
can Economic Association Representative to the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and on the Board of Directors of the
American Association of Geographers Energy and Environment Specialty
Group. He is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, East-West
Center Fellowship, American Planning Association’s Outstanding Pro-
gram Planning Honor Award, EERI Special Service Recognition Award,
and Applied Technology Council Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr.
Rose received a B.A. in economics from the University of Utah, and an
M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.
L. Thomas Tobin is a consultant with Tobin & Associates. He has worked
on natural hazards, risk management, and public policy issues for 40
years. Mr. Tobin served 10 years as Executive Director of the Califor-
nia Seismic Safety Commission. He has lobbied for legislation, having
testified to Congressional committees on six occasions and state legisla -
tive committees on more than 100 occasions. He served on the NEHRP
advisory committee from 1991 to 1993 and the California State Historical
Building Safety Board from 1991 to 1995. He served as a Director and
Vice President of EERI, was EERI’s Distinguished Lecturer in 1996, and
was presented the San Jose State University College of Engineering’s
Award of Distinction in 1996. He was the 2004 recipient of the Alfred E.
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Alquist Medal for Achievement in Earthquake Safety. He was the found -
ing Secretary-Treasurer of EERI’s northern California Chapter from 2001
through 2003, and is the current President. As a consultant, Mr. Tobin
helped FEMA create both Project Impact and the Disaster Resistant
University initiatives. He currently is involved in projects advocating
earthquake resilience and mitigation through land-use regulation and
planning and by integrating seismic safety principles with his clients’
ongoing activities. He is senior advisor at GeoHazards International,
bringing resources and technical knowledge to developing countries
to reduce earthquake risk, and vice chair of the Multihazard Mitigation
Council. He is a registered professional engineer. Mr. Tobin received a B.S.
in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an
M.S. in geotechnical engineering from San José State University.
Andrew S. Whittaker is a professor and department chair in the Depart-
ment of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University
at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a licensed structural engineer
in the state of California. He practiced as a structural engineer in Australia
and Asia in the late 1970s and early 1980s and in the United States in the
late 1980s. He served as the associate director of the Earthquake Engineering
Research Center and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center in the
1990s and joined the University at Buffalo in 2000. He joined the Board of
Directors of CUREE in 2001, served as Vice President in 2003-2004, and has
been President since 2005. Dr. Whittaker's research and professional inter-
ests include earthquake and blast engineering, performance-based design,
seismic protective systems, ultra-high-rise buildings, offshore platforms,
and power-related infrastructure. He is the author of more than 200 publica-
tions, including a reference text, book chapters, journal papers, conference
papers, and technical reports. Dr. Whittaker led NSF-funded earthquake
reconnaissance teams to Kobe, Japan, in 1995, and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999,
and was a member of the three-person, NSF-funded structural engineer-
ing reconnaissance team at the site of the former World Trade Center in
September 2001. He currently serves on technical committees for American
Concrete Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American
Institute of Steel Construction, Building Seismic Safety Council, FEMA,
EERI, and USGS. Dr. Whittaker provides consulting and peer-review ser-
vices to private companies, local, state, and federal government agencies
in the United States, Asia, Australia, Europe, Far East, Middle East, South
America, and the United Kingdom. A focus of his professional work is the
application of new technologies and performance-based design to ultra-tall
buildings, bridges, and conventional and nuclear-related infrastructure. He
is the leader for the Structural Performance Products team that is develop-
ing the second generation of tools for performance-based earthquake engi-
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neering as part of the DHS/FEMA-funded ATC-58 (Applied Technology
Council 58) project. Dr. Whittaker received a B.E. in civil engineering from
the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a M.S. in civil engineering and
Ph.D. in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STAFF
David A. Feary is a Senior Program Officer with the NRC’s Board on Earth
Sciences and Resources and Staff Director of BESR’s Committee on Seis -
mology and Geodynamics. He is also a research professor in the School of
Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability at Arizona
State University. Prior to joining the NRC, he spent 15 years as a research
scientist with the marine program at Geoscience Australia. During this
time, he participated in numerous national and international research
cruises to better understand the role of climate as a primary control on
carbonate reef formation and to improve understanding of cool-water car-
bonate depositional processes and controls. He is a member of the Science
Planning Committee of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Dr. Feary
received B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Hons) degrees from the University of Auckland
and his Ph.D. from the Australian National University.
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